International Journal of Legal Information the Official Journal of the International Association of Law Libraries Volume 36 Article 10 Issue 1 Spring 2008 4-1-2008 Peasants, Tanners, and Psychiatrists: Using Films to Teach Comparative Law Joseph W. Dellapenna Villanova University School of Law Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/ijli The International Journal of Legal Information is produced by The nI ternational Association of Law Libraries. Recommended Citation Dellapenna, Joseph W. (2008) "Peasants, Tanners, and Psychiatrists: Using Films to Teach Comparative Law," International Journal of Legal Information: Vol. 36: Iss. 1, Article 10. Available at: http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/ijli/vol36/iss1/10 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Scholarship@Cornell Law: A Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in International Journal of Legal Information by an authorized administrator of Scholarship@Cornell Law: A Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Peasants, Tanners, and Psychiatrists: Using Films to Teach Comparative Law JOSEPH W. DELLAPENNA* Table of Contents I. Introduction II. Selecting the Films III. The Films A. The Return of Martin Guerre B. Dingaka C. The Story of Qiu Ju D. A Question of Silence E. The Conviction F. The Red Corner I. Introduction The last four decades have seen the emergence of the “law and literature” movement.1 Although numerous stories in the common law world turn on the trial of cases,2 many studies in the law and literature vein use * Professor of Law, Villanova University School of Law, Villanova, Pennsylvania.